Bert Stern: Original Madman plot
The extraordinary photographer Bert Stern exposes himself for the first time. His lightning-fast career began as a postal boy at Look Magazine, where he had a close relationship with the young photographer, Stanley Kubrick. The launch of Stern's career and the 'Golden Age of Advertising' would coincide precisely with Stern's 'Driest of the Dry' campaign for the vodka brand Smirnoff. It caused a huge increase in sales and turned America into a vodka-drinking country. Popular on Madison Avenue, in Hollywood and the international fashion world, Bert was at the heart of what George Lois would call "creative evolution." Stern, together with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, gave the star photographer concept their own interpretation. Photographing the world's most beautiful women, such as Jean Shrimpton, Suzie Parker, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, the young man from Brooklyn lived like a dream.